Weather Records on 26 December 2015

2,352 weather records were set or tied worldwide on 26 December 2015. Highest significance: Putbus, DE.

Key Facts for 26 December 2015

On 26 December 2015, 2,352 weather records were set or tied at long-record stations worldwide.
1,748 were record highs and 116 were record lows, counting maximum and minimum temperature.
By timescale, 6 were all-time records, 124 monthly and 2,222 daily.
Putbus set a daily record precipitation of 33.9 mm (1.3 in) on 26 December 2015.
Across 153 earlier years (1798 to 2025) the same calendar date averaged 526 records.

Record Map

2,000 stations, highest significance shown

2,000 station records on 26 December 2015 are marked on the map, coloured by record type. Dot size shows the significance score. Made with Natural Earth.

Weather records on 26 December 2015: highest significance records shown on the map
Station	Country	Type	Value	Significance
Putbus	Germany	Record daily precipitation	33.9 mm (1.3 in)	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
Decatur Wtp	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
Bradshaw Homestead	Australia	Record daily precipitation	107.6 mm (4.2 in)	76 of 100 (Major)
Sewanee	United States	Record daily precipitation	109.2 mm (4.3 in)	75 of 100 (Major)
Willeroo	Australia	Record daily precipitation	291.0 mm (11.5 in)	72 of 100 (Major)
Tipton 4S Mesonet	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Springfield Abraham Lincoln Ca	United States	Record daily precipitation	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	69 of 100 (Major)
Daly Waters AWS	Australia	Record daily precipitation	104.4 mm (4.1 in)	68 of 100 (Major)
Arkona	Germany	Record daily precipitation	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Summersville 3 SE	United States	Record daily precipitation	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Springfield	United States	Record daily precipitation	153.2 mm (6.0 in)	66 of 100 (Major)
Ystad	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	28.3 mm (1.1 in)	64 of 100 (Major)
St Louis Lambert Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	123.7 mm (4.9 in)	63 of 100 (Major)
Lakeside	United States	Record daily precipitation	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Tellico Plains	United States	Record daily precipitation	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Joplin Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	82.8 mm (3.3 in)	62 of 100 (Major)
Wood	United States	Record daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	60 of 100 (Major)
Moose Lake 1 SSE	United States	Record daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	59 of 100 (Notable)
Petropavlovskij Majak	Russia	Record daily precipitation	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Bridgeport 5 NW	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Moulton 2	United States	Record daily precipitation	234.4 mm (9.2 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Hillsboro	United States	Record daily precipitation	121.4 mm (4.8 in)	58 of 100 (Notable)
Lincoln	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.7 mm (1.7 in)	57 of 100 (Notable)
Leeming	United Kingdom	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
House	United States	Record daily snowfall	22.9 cm (9.0 in)	56 of 100 (Notable)
Shirland	United States	Record daily precipitation	40.6 mm (1.6 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Osceola	United States	Record daily precipitation	101.6 mm (4.0 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Tulsa Intl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	74.2 mm (2.9 in)	55 of 100 (Notable)
Guntersville	United States	Record daily precipitation	172.5 mm (6.8 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Oak Ridge	United States	Record daily precipitation	94.0 mm (3.7 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Mason City	United States	Record daily snowfall	14.0 cm (5.5 in)	54 of 100 (Notable)
Melville 4 W	United States	Record snow depth	35.6 cm (14.0 in)	53 of 100 (Notable)
Batesville Lvstk	United States	Record daily precipitation	95.3 mm (3.8 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
House	United States	Record daily precipitation	35.6 mm (1.4 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Alexandria	United States	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Columbia Rgnl AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	55.9 mm (2.2 in)	52 of 100 (Notable)
Uniontown	United States	Record daily precipitation	111.8 mm (4.4 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Charleston	United States	Record daily precipitation	54.9 mm (2.2 in)	51 of 100 (Notable)
Gassaway	United States	Record daily precipitation	57.2 mm (2.3 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Olathe Johnson Co Ind AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	25.7 mm (1.0 in)	50 of 100 (Notable)
Pearsall	United States	Record high maximum temperature	31.7 C (89.1 F)	49 of 100 (Notable)
Palisade	United States	Record daily snowfall	8.1 cm (3.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Summerville	United States	Record daily precipitation	91.4 mm (3.6 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Atoka	United States	Record daily precipitation	81.5 mm (3.2 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Belleville Siu Rsch	United States	Record daily precipitation	46.5 mm (1.8 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Ft Worth NAS	United States	Record daily precipitation	51.3 mm (2.0 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Lafayette Purdue UNIV AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	42.4 mm (1.7 in)	48 of 100 (Notable)
Skurup_D	Sweden	Record daily precipitation	29.2 mm (1.1 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Jacksonville	United States	Record daily precipitation	76.2 mm (3.0 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Saint Bernard	United States	Record high minimum temperature	15.6 C (60.1 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Meeker	United States	Record daily snowfall	18.8 cm (7.4 in)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Leesville	United States	Record high minimum temperature	22.2 C (72.0 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Little Mtn	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.7 C (62.1 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Beaumont City	United States	Record high minimum temperature	23.3 C (73.9 F)	47 of 100 (Notable)
Talladega	United States	Record daily precipitation	70.1 mm (2.8 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Marshall	United States	Record daily snowfall	20.3 cm (8.0 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Roxboro 7 ESE	United States	Record high minimum temperature	16.1 C (61.0 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Batesburg	United States	Record high minimum temperature	17.2 C (63.0 F)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Bartlesville Muni AP	United States	Record daily precipitation	49.3 mm (1.9 in)	46 of 100 (Notable)
Chemnitz	Germany	Record high minimum temperature	8.8 C (47.8 F)	45 of 100 (Notable)

Counts by Type and Timescale

2,352 records

Records set or tied on 26 December 2015 by type: Highest daily maximum 882, Lowest daily maximum 63, Highest daily minimum 866, Lowest daily minimum 53, Heaviest daily rainfall 347, Heaviest daily snowfall 105, Deepest snow cover 36.

Records on 26 December 2015 by type
Record type	Records
Highest daily maximum	882
Lowest daily maximum	63
Highest daily minimum	866
Lowest daily minimum	53
Heaviest daily rainfall	347
Heaviest daily snowfall	105
Deepest snow cover	36

Records on 26 December 2015 by timescale: all-time 6, monthly 124, daily 2,222.

How Much Records Were Beaten By

1,991 broken records

Margins by which the 1,991 broken records beat the old ones, in degrees Celsius for temperature and millimetres for precipitation and snow; the largest margin was 229.0. Ties are not counted.

Top 20 by Significance

26 December 2015

Top 20 records on 26 December 2015 by significance
Date	Station	Record	Value	Beat old record by	Old record stood	Significance
26 December 2015	Putbus, DE	daily rain	33.9 mm (1.3 in)	19.8 mm (0.8 in)	101 years	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
26 December 2015	Decatur Wtp, US	daily rain	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	52.3 mm (2.1 in)	110 years	80 of 100 (Exceptional)
26 December 2015	Bradshaw Homestead, AU	daily rain	107.6 mm (4.2 in)	66.7 mm (2.6 in)	96 years	76 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Sewanee, US	daily rain	109.2 mm (4.3 in)	64.5 mm (2.5 in)	113 years	75 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Willeroo, AU	all-time rain	291.0 mm (11.5 in)	31.9 mm (1.3 in)	80 years	72 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Tipton 4S Mesonet, US	daily rain	47.5 mm (1.9 in)	42.2 mm (1.7 in)	74 years	69 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Springfield Abraham Lincoln Ca, US	daily rain	47.0 mm (1.9 in)	32.8 mm (1.3 in)	72 years	69 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Daly Waters AWS, AU	daily rain	104.4 mm (4.1 in)	83.3 mm (3.3 in)	72 years	68 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Arkona, DE	daily rain	32.5 mm (1.3 in)	26.6 mm (1.0 in)	60 years	66 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Summersville 3 SE, US	daily rain	68.6 mm (2.7 in)	54.4 mm (2.1 in)	65 years	66 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Springfield, US	monthly rain	153.2 mm (6.0 in)	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	33 years	66 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Ystad, SE	daily rain	28.3 mm (1.1 in)	17.2 mm (0.7 in)	60 years	64 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	St Louis Lambert Intl AP, US	monthly rain	123.7 mm (4.9 in)	53.6 mm (2.1 in)	23 years	63 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Lakeside, US	monthly rain	106.7 mm (4.2 in)	24.1 mm (0.9 in)	72 years	62 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Tellico Plains, US	daily rain	71.4 mm (2.8 in)	43.5 mm (1.7 in)	72 years	62 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Joplin Rgnl AP, US	daily rain	82.8 mm (3.3 in)	67.3 mm (2.6 in)	56 years	62 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Wood, US	daily snowfall	25.4 cm (10.0 in)	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	73 years	60 of 100 (Major)
26 December 2015	Moose Lake 1 SSE, US	daily snowfall	12.7 cm (5.0 in)	6.6 cm (2.6 in)	100 years	59 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 2015	Petropavlovskij Majak, RU	daily rain	39.1 mm (1.5 in)	15.4 mm (0.6 in)	120 years	58 of 100 (Notable)
26 December 2015	Yinchuan, CN	daily rain	20.1 mm (0.8 in)	18.9 mm (0.7 in)	60 years	20 of 100 (Routine)

Significance is a score from 0 to 100 combining margin, the age of the old record and the length of the station's record. How it is computed.

The Same Date in Other Years

1798 to 2015

Records set or tied on this calendar date in each year from 1798 to 2015. 2015 had 2,352 records.

Counts for years before the ledger starts come from the same station rules.

Records on 12-26 in each year
Year	Records
1798	2
1806	2
1810	1
1824	1
1835	1
1839	1
1848	1
1852	4
1853	2
1868	1
1872	2
1875	1
1876	1
1881	2
1882	1
1885	1
1886	3
1888	2
1889	3
1891	1
1892	3
1893	1
1894	2
1895	4
1896	6
1897	1
1898	3
1899	10
1900	8
1901	6
1902	11
1903	4
1904	4
1905	3
1906	18
1907	12
1908	13
1909	36
1910	8
1911	48
1912	79
1913	47
1914	135
1915	62
1916	27
1917	41
1918	49
1919	53
1920	84
1921	123
1922	215
1923	302
1924	295
1925	151
1926	148
1927	104
1928	342
1929	190
1930	218
1931	289
1932	395
1933	658
1934	267
1935	659
1936	1,106
1937	170
1938	336
1939	347
1940	535
1941	436
1942	916
1943	344
1944	266
1945	295
1946	458
1947	508
1948	619
1949	310
1950	425
1951	330
1952	148
1953	215
1954	269
1955	668
1956	541
1957	676
1958	401
1959	974
1960	333
1961	352
1962	816
1963	321
1964	1,280
1965	443
1966	327
1967	545
1968	1,019
1969	850
1970	365
1971	1,116
1972	527
1973	717
1974	1,078
1975	1,010
1976	534
1977	757
1978	658
1979	369
1980	2,348
1981	761
1982	1,769
1983	3,763
1984	568
1985	1,102
1986	495
1987	2,414
1988	1,662
1989	733
1990	1,253
1991	679
1992	507
1993	822
1994	1,034
1995	1,426
1996	2,024
1997	1,101
1998	554
1999	1,057
2000	1,390
2001	642
2002	947
2003	730
2004	778
2005	976
2006	866
2007	674
2008	1,119
2009	1,580
2010	1,746
2011	1,019
2012	1,300
2013	480
2014	569
2015	2,352
2016	1,592
2017	719
2018	449
2019	830
2020	402
2021	1,205
2022	1,111
2023	1,127
2024	541
2025	1,661

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Sources: Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Made with Natural Earth. Public domain map data. Borders are Natural Earth's de facto depiction. Data as of 2026-10-17 (17 October 2026). Records are computed by this site and are not official.

Data as of 2026-10-16. Last revised 16 October 2026 (2026-10-16).

Margin	Records
0 to 50	1,928
50 to 100	47
100 to 150	12
150 to 200	2
200 to 250	2